Monthly Archives: June 2008

This weekend I went to the Celtic Fling, a great Celtic festival held at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire grounds on the Mount Hope Estate & Winery in Manheim, PA. The Mid-Atlantic Great Dane Rescue League was there with a few of their gorgeous babies. They had a really cool way …

Before Petfinder, I was an editor at People.com, so I’ve got a secret interest in all things celebrity. I’ve also got a mental tally of celebrities who adopted their pets, and I’m always happy to add another one to the list. So I was thrilled yesterday to read the new …

One of our favorite fans is Nikki Moustaki, pet author and creator of the Dogfessions Web site and, now, book. Nikki is a huge supporter of pet adoption, and she and her publisher, HarperCollins, even donated $10,000 to the Petfinder.com Foundation to help shelter pets. Nikki has also invited Petfinder …

You can help spread the word about adoptable pets by posting them to your Facebook mini-feed.When you’re logged into Facebook, just do a search for Posted Items and then download that application. It will let you post any URL to your mini-feed, including Pet Notes pages. The app also has …

The New York Times today ran an article about a topic we’ve been hearing more and more about lately, both in the news and from our shelter members: the impact of economic hardship on pets. (The photo at right, from the article, shows a couple from Georgia who lost their …

This just in from a Petfinder.com reader: We were growing increasingly concerned: Perseus, our new cat, had not been using his kitty litter box. Then one evening we heard someone in the bathroom and found Perseus perched on the toilet doing his business. Our three shelter dogs are amazed and …

Well, I wrote a Happy Tail about Archie after I brought him home from the Taunton Animal Shelter. I thought you might enjoy an update on his progress. Archie had been a stray, and when I met him at the shelter, he was a timid little guy. Once I took …

As the marketing manager for Petfinder, I work out of the New York office of Animal Planet, where staffers volunteer every week to read with local elementary schoolers. To celebrate the end of the school year, some of those students came to the offices on Friday, where they were treated …

I recently visited my mother and her dog, Sashi, adopted from the Providence Animal Rescue League. Sashi is now 13-1/2 and has been taking medication for arthritis for the past several years. Last week she temporarily lost the use of her hind legs. The vet said it was due to …